Under Capricorn

(Alfred Hitchcock, US 1949, 117 min., 35mm)

Senior Matinee. Presented free to seniors (62+) on Monday afternoons through October. Beginning this March, our senior matinee screenings are fully incorporated into our regular film calendar. Cinematic classics from the George Eastman House collection will be presented in 35mm, the way they were originally screened and were meant to be seen. This series is made possible in part by the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation and the Monroe County Office for the Aging.

Aristocrat Ingrid Bergman weds stableman Joseph Cotten with unforeseen results in Hitchcock’s excursion into the costume drama. Misunderstood and underappreciated on its release, Under Capricorn was later hailed by French New Wave critics as one of the finest films of the 1940s.